We all know Kansas native Clint Bowyer is a talker. Maybe that is why FOX has decided to make him one of the five active drivers it will put in the booth for its XFINITY series races this season. Bowyer will help call races for NASCAR’s second series at Auto Club Speedway and Charlotte Motor Speedway.

After a strange and eventful week in Daytona, it’s finally time to run the sport’s biggest race. Remember Clint Bowyer post-group qualifying tirade? Seems like a million years ago after this crazy week.

As far as Clint Bowyer is concerned, the 2015 Daytona 500 can’t get her soon enough. The Kansas native is coming off his worst season since he became a Sprint Cup Series driver. Once the green flag drops in Daytona, he can finally put 2014 in his rear view mirror.

After the shortest off season in all of sports, NASCAR returns with weekend. This is also one of the few sports that runs its biggest race first. A week from Sunday, on February 22 is the Daytona 500. But we will all get a preview of the excitement on Saturday night with the running of the Sprint Unlimited.

Wendell Scott is finally in victory circle where he belongs. On Friday, Scott was one of five people inducted into NASCAR’s Hall of Fame. It’s a far cry from the scene of his one and only NASCAR victory in 1963.

It has been quite a few months for Michael Waltrip Racing driver Brian Vickers. He had open heart surgery in December and in March he will return to the race track, missing just two races. His first race back will be at Las Vegas.

If you have been following me on this blog for any period of time than you know the biggest thing that annoys me about NASCAR is the constant change. And while there once again some changes in the sport, mostly on the competition side with the reduction in horse power and the electronic timing and scoring. The biggest news on day one of the Sprint Cup Media tour is, no news. No big changes to…

Other than an actually race, one of the most productive week’s I have all year is on the Charlotte Motor Speedway Media Tour. Me and 200 of my media friends are herded from race team to race team, talking to pretty much every driver in the garage area, many crew chiefs and several of the other major players in the sport. You just can’t get this kind of access in other sports.

Confession time: The only time I have really ever been nervous before an interview, was the first time I interviewed Jeff Gordon. I’m still not exactly sure why. At that point in my career I had already interviewed plenty of big names in sports and I wasn’t exactly a NASCAR fan. But maybe that was part of it. Jeff Gordon wasn’t just an athlete. Jeff Gordon was a star.

By the end of the day NASCAR will have a new Champion. The Chase for the Sprint Cup ends in Homestead as Ryan Newman, Kevin Harvick, Denny Hamlin and Joey Logano battle for the title. The highest finisher of the four Sunday will take home the 2014 Cup.

NASCAR News

It may have been a cold and rainy day in Atlanta, but six-time champion Jimmie Johnson showed his team can still get red hot. Johnson led 92 laps in route to the victory, the 71st of his career and he earned his spot in the Chase for the Championship.

It appears Kurt Busch will not race in NASCAR anytime in the near future. Late Saturday evening Busch lost his final appeal of his indefinite suspension made to the National Motorsports Final Appeals Officer, Bryan Moss. Moss upheld Busch’s suspension.

NASCAR driver Kyle Busch will miss Sunday’s Daytona 500 after a vicious crash in Saturday’s XFinity series race. The accident with nine laps left in the race sent Busch nearly head on into a retaining wall on a part of the track that does not have a safety feature called a SAFER Barrier (which helps absorb energy from a crash). He was taken to a nearby hospital and is reported to have a left leg…

The National Motorsports Appeal Panel has denied the appeal of NASCAR driver Kurt Busch. Busch was suspended indefinitely by NASCAR on Friday because a judge in Delaware issued an order of protection against him.

In the past a Daytona 500 qualifying crash may not have meant much to a driver with the status of Clint Bowyer. But with the elimination of the top 35 rule (which guaranteed drivers in the Top 35 in point a spot in every race), Thursday’s Budweiser Duels were much more stressful for the Kansas native.

Clint Bowyer is not happy about the new qualifying format at Daytona. The Kansas native was caught up in a five car accident in the first session of knock-out qualifying that destroyed his primary race car.

If anyone doubted the love affair has with Daytona, he sent a little Valentine’s Day love note on Saturday night. The two-time Daytona 500 winner survived a wreck filled 75 laps to take the season opening exhibition known as the Sprint Unlimited.

Five legendary drivers with distinct styles and contributions to NASCAR were enshrined into the NASCAR Hall of Fame in Charlotte, North Carolina tonight during the Induction Ceremony held in the Crown Ball Room at the Charlotte Convention Center.

Chase Elliott turned head when he won the 2014 XFinity Series title as a rookie. In 2016 the son of Hall of Famer Bill Elliott will begin turning laps as the driver of the No. 24 Chevy for Hendrick Motorsports.

On the heels Jeff Gordon’s recent announcement that 2015 will be his last full time in NASCAR, Clint Bowyer says he respects Gordon’s place in the NASCAR world, but he isn’t quite ready to let his feud with Gordon go.

Roush Fenway Racing has announced that Bubba Wallace will drive the No. 6 Ford Mustang for the team in the NASCAR XFINITY Series (NXS) next season. The signing pairs NASCAR's winningest NXS team with a young driver widely regarded as one of the most talented up-and-coming competitors in NASCAR. The 21-year-old Wallace has posted five wins in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series, including four…

For the just the fourth time in the series history, NASCAR’s top series will have a new title sponsor beginning in 2017. Sprint announced on Tuesday it would not return to the sport following the 2016 season.

Coming off an exciting 2014 Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup finale, NASCAR announced today all 16 Chase drivers will be eligible to compete in the 2015 Sprint Unlimited at Daytona International Speedway (DIS). The 75-lap, non-points race will once again kick off the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series racing season Saturday, Feb. 14 (FOX, MRN Radio, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio) and will feature an expanded field…